Grain-car door.



l G. L. SMITH.

GRAIN GAR DOOR. APPLICATION FILED APE.29,1908.

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G. L. SMITH.

GRAIN GAR DOOR.

APPLICATION FILED APB.29,1908.

908,045. Patented Dec. 29, 1908.

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- To all whom it my concern:

Be it. known that I, flunris L. SMITH, a citizen of the United States,residing at Dunn, in the county of Benton and State of Indiana, haveinvented certain new and 'useful Im rovements in Grain-Car Doors, ofwhich t is following is a s eciiication.

This invention coinpre ends certain new and useful improvements in doorsfor grain cars, and the invention has for its object the simple, durableand ellicient construction of a door adapted to slide sidewise acrossand away from a door-way and embodying a hinged upper section adaptedto,be swung inwardly and secured in a suspended condition to the top orroot of the car when not desired for use, and the invention consists incertain cons tructionsand arrangements of the parts that lshallhereinafterv fully de scribe and claim.

For a full understanding of the invention, reference is to be had to thefollowing de scription and accompanying drawings in which:

' Figure 1 is an elevation of a car-door con 'structcd in accordancewith my invention;

Fig. Zis a horizontal sectional view thereof;

Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section; Fig. 4

door posts or j ambs' defining the side walls of the door-way. i

3 designates the upper doonsill of the car, and 4 designates a railwhich is secured to saidsill and which extends across the door way andto one side thereof as clearly illusbrat-ed in the drawings.

()utwardly facing hooks 5 that are formed on the. upper ends ofsuspension bars 6', are

engaged withthe rail 4 and are adaptedto slide thereon, said suspensionbars being nv .eted, bolted or otherwise fastened to the main or lowerdoor section 7 at the upper edge thereof, so as to sup ort the door asii; is

. slid across and to one si e of the door-way. 1'lhedoor 7 is preferablyreinforced by trans ycrsoly exten.

opened.

mg steel bars 8 r ivetedthereto. The lower edge of the door 7 is adaptedto slide in a groove or channel in thelowcr supporting rail 9.

One edge of the door 7 is formed with an angularly disposed edge 10which is adapted to scrape against the side wall of the car when thedoor is moved to an open position so asto prevent any leakage of grainaround the side edge of the door, and also to niaintain a secure jointbetween such side edge and the wall of the closed position.

The door section 7, as is common with. all

car when the door is in a doors of this type, terminates at its upperedge below the upper edge of the door way and'is supplemented by anupper door section which in the present instance is designated -11 andwhich is secured near its ends to hangers 12 riveted or otherwisefastened thereto. The hangers 12- cXtendu'owardly and are curved asindicated at 13 and extend around and clear of the rail 4 and the upperends of the hangers 12 are pivotally connected to the brackets 14secured to the wall 3, so that the upper door section 11 may be closedin the door-way above the upper edge of the main doorL and be swungbackwardly and upwardly out of the way and held in an inoperativeposition against the roof of the car by any desired fastening device(not shown). The upper section ll of the door is grooved near its endsas indicated at 15, the grooves ext-ending vertically and being designedto en-age the suspension bars 6 of the main or ower door? when the uppersection '11 is closed, in order to admit of a close joint between thetwo sections. 7

l6 designates a supplemental door which is mounted in the main door 7near the lower end tllereof and which is ,adapted to slide in channelirons 17 secured to the main door so as .to open or close anopcniugthere in, in order to permit the grain to flow out whenever desiredbefore the main door 7 is It is to be understood that this smallsupplemental door-'16 is provided with any form of handle so that it maybe opened or closed from the outside of the car.

In order to'hold the main door in closed position I have providedlatches 18 that are mounted within casin s in the door jarnbs and thatare former with hooked ends adapted to be inserted through horizontallyelon ated slots 19 formed in the main. door,-

the atohes being turned after their hook-e;

have been inserted through the slots so that thereto above the door, ofsuspension bars Way, and hangers secured to said upper door the hookswill engage with the rear face of the door and hold the same locked. Inorder to cover these slots 19 to prevent the grain from leaking out, Ihave provided caps 20, to be fastened by rivets or the like to the innerface of the door over the slots 'as shown. In order to hold the uppersection 11 of the door in closed position I have provided theturn-buttons 21.

Having thus described the invention, What is claimed as new is:

1.,The combination of a car, rovided with a door-Way, and an elevatedrai secured nlountedto move in a side-Wise direction on said rail, amain lower door secured to said suspension bars, an upper door sectionadapted to close the-upper end of the doorsection and pivotallyconnected to the car above the door Way and arranged to swingtransversely of the door-Way, said hanger rods being formed with bentout portions extending around the rail.

2. The combination with a car rovided with a door-way and an elevatedrai secured thereto above the door-way, of suspension bars mounted tomove in a sidewise dlreetion on said rail, a main lower door secured tosaid suspension bars, and an upper door section adapted to close theupper end of the door-way, and hangers secured to said npper doorsection and pivotally connected to the car above the door-way andarranged to swing in a vertical plane, said upper door section beingformed with grooves adapted to receive the sus ension bars.

In testimony W iereof I allix my signature in presence of two WitnessesCURTIS'L. surrn. n 8.]

WVitnesses:

J. A. IssELs'rErN, PETER SONDGERATH

